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I06. COMPOSITIONS, COATING OR PLASTIC.

JAMES S. WATTS, OF BALTIMORE, AND LUNSFORD G. TVATTS, OF PIKESVILLE, MARYLAND.

ARTIFICIAL STONE.

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srzcmrca'non forming part of Letters Patent no. 282,426, dated July 31, 1883.

Application filed February 3, 1883. (No specimens.)

tion, and then allowed to dry, which for ordinary building-stone takes about six days, and 0 for stone which is to receive a brilliant polish about twenty days.

We have found by actual experiment that our stone thus made will stand a very great amount of either heat or cold and remain firm and hard, neither cracking, crumbling, blistering, nor in any manner dei eriorating or disintegrating, and will take as brilliant a polish as any of the natural stones. It is extremely cheap to manufacture, and contains nothing to fade any desired lorin -matter which may be introduced for ornameniaI purposes.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

The herein-described artificial stone, consisting of cement, sand, wheat, corn, and water,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES S. WATTS and LUNSFORD G. WATTs, citizens of the United States, residing, respectively, at Baltimore city 5 and Pikesville, Baltimore county, Maryland,

have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Artificial Stone, of which the I, following is a specification.

\Ve take one partof Po jla nd cement, if a 1o light-colored stone is esired, or one part of Rosendale cement, if a dark-colored stone is desired, and two parts of sand, and mix them thoroughly in ary s a e. e also take equal parts, by measure, of corn and wheat in the grain, and, adding foul times as much water we boil the mixtnrem quan 1 .y e 1 z 18 water used. This we call our solution.

W'edjlute this solution by addin to one part 0 1 vy-two Ree after which the block dampened once a day for four successive days with the dilute solu- JNO. T. Mnnnox, S. "BRASHEARS.

20 par s o w: r. Ve now add to the mixture in the proportionsdefs'dr'ibed.

of sand and cement suffieient of this dilute In witness whereof we havehereunto set our solution to moisten it just enough t3 permit hands. of tamping it in wooden or other mol s. The 7 mass is now tamped in the molds and at once gf g taken out, the block being removed from the mold, or the mold taken away from the block, Witnesses: 

